Eloping in Niagara Parks: The Gardens Everyone Overlooks
Past the falls, Niagara Parks runs glasshouses, gardens, and river estates that make one of the most beautiful and least-expected elopement settings in Ontario. Ninety minutes from Toronto, all shot by me.
Everyone knows Niagara for the falls. Almost no one knows that Niagara Parks runs a chain of gardens, glasshouses, and estates along the river that make one of the most beautiful and least-expected elopement settings in Ontario, ninety minutes from Toronto and a world away from the tourist strip.
These are the Niagara Parks settings I shoot, all colour and old stone and river light, and every frame here is mine.
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The Floral Showhouse. A glasshouse of orchids, tropical blooms, and seasonal shows that stays vivid year-round, which makes it the one Niagara location that works in the depth of winter. Warm, saturated, and completely sheltered.
The Floral Showhouse
The Floral Showhouse. A glasshouse of orchids, tropical blooms, and seasonal shows that stays vivid year-round, which makes it the one Niagara location that works in the depth of winter. Warm, saturated, and completely sheltered.
The gardens and the parkway
Mother / the botanical gardens and the parkway. The Niagara Parkway runs manicured gardens the length of the river, the botanical gardens, arches, and lawns above the gorge. Formal, green, and grand, with the river always just beyond.
Ramblers Rest and the river
Ramblers Rest. A quieter riverside spot down toward the gorge, stone and water and shade, for a couple who wants the river itself rather than the manicured lawns.
How I run a Niagara elopement
Niagara Parks requires permits for a ceremony and a professional shoot, and I handle every one of them. Tell me the setting that pulls at you and I will book it, plan the day around the light, arrange the officiant, and photograph and film it myself.
Twelve years and 240+ couples in, Niagara is the setting most couples overlook and the one that surprises them most in the gallery.
